{"id":28629,"date":"2025-10-31T00:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/28629\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:24:12","slug":"woman-facing-felony-arson-charge-after-fort-worth-blaze-that-left-2-firefighters-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/28629\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman facing felony arson charge after Fort Worth blaze that left 2 firefighters hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">One person has been arrested for allegedly starting a house fire last month in which two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fort-worth\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fort-worth\/\">Fort Worth<\/a> firefighters were injured, according to a Fort Worth Fire Department news release Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Fort Worth police arrested Shawndreika Thomas on Wednesday on charges of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/\">arson<\/a> of habitation, a first-degree felony, and bodily injury of two firefighters, the release said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">As of Thursday, Thomas was being held on a $250,000 bond at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/tarrant-county\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/tarrant-county\/\">Tarrant County<\/a> jail, according to online jail records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">It was not immediately clear if she has an attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Fort Worth fire arson unit began investigating after the fire was reported Sept. 3 at a house on Williams Street, officials said. While battling the blaze, firefighters Caleb Halvorson and Lt. Troy Gallagher suffered injuries, the release said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Halvorson underwent multiple surgeries and physical therapy for \u201cextensive injuries and burns\u201d before being released from the hospital on Oct. 6, according to a FWFD Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Investigators did not immediately publicly disclose a motive for the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has been arrested for allegedly starting a house fire last month in which two Fort Worth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[294,630,116,118,117,1225,122],"class_list":["post-28629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-crime","tag-fire","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-public-safety","tag-tarrant-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}